Biography:
Thomas Andrew "Tom" Lehrer (born 9 April 1928) is an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician. He has lectured on mathematics and musical theater.
Before attending college, Lehrer graduated from the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Connecticut. As an undergraduate student at Harvard University, he began to write comic songs to entertain his friends, including Fight Fiercely, Harvard (1945). Those songs later became (in a joking reference to a leading scientific journal, The Physical Review) The Physical Revue.
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Other songs:
- Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
- The Element Song
- The Elements Song
- The Hunting Song
- The Masochism Tango
- Vatican Rag
- We Will All Go Together When We Go
- The Elements (Song)
- A Christmas Carol
- Be Prepared
- Fight Fiercely Harvard
- I Got It From Agnes
- I Hold Your Hand In Mine
- I Wanna Go Back To Dixie
- In Old Mexico
- Irish Ballad
- Lobachevsky
- M L F Lullaby
- Masochism Tango
- My Home Town
- National Brotherhood Week
- Pigeons In The Park
- Pollution
- Send The Marines
- Smut
- So Long Mom
- The Folk Song Army
- The Old Dope Peddler
- The Vatican Rag
- The Wild West Is Where I Wanna Be
- The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be
- Wernher Von Braun
- Whatever Became Of Hubert
- Whos Next
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Wernher Von Braun - Tom Lehrer
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Tabbed by: Dave S.
Email: [email protected]
Tuning: Standard
G7 C
Gather round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun
G7 C G7 C
A man whose allegiance is ruled by expedience
G7 C A7
Call him a Nazi he wont even frown
Dm C G7 C
Nazi schmazi says Wernher von Braun
B7 Em
Dont say that hes hypocritical
B7 Em
Say rather that hes apolitical
G7 C A7
Once the rockets are up who cares where they come down
Dm C G7 C
Thats not my department says Wernher von Braun
G7 C
Some have harsh words for this man of renown
G7 C G7 C
But some think our attitude should be one of gratitude
G7 C A7
Like the widows and cripples in old London town
Dm C G7 C
Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun
B7 Em
You too may be a big hero
B7 Em
Once youve learned to count backwards to zero
G7 C A7
In German or English I know how to count down
Dm C G7 C
And Im learning Chinese says Wernher von Braun
Wernher Von Braun - Tom Lehrer
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Tabbed by: Dave S.
Email: [email protected]
Tuning: Standard
G7 C
Gather round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun
G7 C G7 C
A man whose allegiance is ruled by expedience
G7 C A7
Call him a Nazi he wont even frown
Dm C G7 C
Nazi schmazi says Wernher von Braun
B7 Em
Dont say that hes hypocritical
B7 Em
Say rather that hes apolitical
G7 C A7
Once the rockets are up who cares where they come down
Dm C G7 C
Thats not my department says Wernher von Braun
G7 C
Some have harsh words for this man of renown
G7 C G7 C
But some think our attitude should be one of gratitude
G7 C A7
Like the widows and cripples in old London town
Dm C G7 C
Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun
B7 Em
You too may be a big hero
B7 Em
Once youve learned to count backwards to zero
G7 C A7
In German or English I know how to count down
Dm C G7 C
And Im learning Chinese says Wernher von Braun
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